Zimbabwe, which just a few years ago was on its way to fulfilling its destiny as an African economic jugernaut, is now detouring into a full blown police state with the introduction of a bill that would end all pretenses that the country is anything but Robert Mugabe’s personal fiefdom.
According to SMH.Com.AU, the bill would make it illegal to “excite people or express dissatisfaction with the president, the government or the police.” This will effectively outlaw all opposition to Mugabe and put a rubber stamp on his roundup of journalists and opposition politicians.
The chairman of Lawyers for Human Rights, Tawanda Hondora, is quoted by SMH.Com.AU as saying that this bill is far more extreme than anything that either European colonialists or the apartheid regime in South Africa ever tried to impose on African nations.
Zimbabwe is likely to be a living hell for years to come.
Source:
Liberty and speech stifled in laws ‘as bad as apartheid.’ Peta Thornycroft, SMH.Com.AU, December 20, 2001.
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